Yeah, I understand Jake
the question. I think for me I'm gonna be respectful of the
investigation of the legal proceedings. I'm gonna let that
play out. Yeah. Again, I can't add much. I'm going to let
both the investigation and the legal proceedings play on.
Yeah, I think Nate we're here making sure that we get good
practice in
guys. Did a nice job out there today. I'm not going to comment
past that but you know, I think we have
to be respectful of the process be
Of the legal proceedings.
I understand why you have to ask that
Darryl, but I'm just going to be
respectful process and let it play out.
I think Tom with anything.
We're trying to just focus on the day.
I can't see past today,
truly. So that's kind of where my focus is.
Browns, coach Kevin stefanski w**** guy along the Short Straw
and being required to answer these questions. It's not
a mess. He made, it's not. I don't even know that he wanted
to Sean W. And these are decision. I thought I heard Aid
higher than him.
This is a Jimmy Haslam move. This is the latest in the line
of quarterback misfires by the Cleveland Browns. And this one
at least is
a highly talented quarterback. Unlike Johnny Manziel
and the others that they have
employed and it hasn't worked out. Baker Mayfield is talented
but it just hasn't worked out with Watson. It's the complete
and total underestimation of the way things continue to go
off the rails. And I don't know that anybody could have
foreseen the specific developments that we've
witnessed over the past week and a half, but you can't say
you're surprised by it. These are all natural consequences of
trading for a guy and giving me two hundred thirty million
dollar fully guaranteed contract. When he Has 22
pending cases when he's represented by a
lawyer who has shown a propensity for
the dramatic and the theatrical
two, more lawsuits
big article in the New York Times
and now the latest development.
The notion that the Texans are going to get
an invitation
involuntarily. I thought this might happen, you know, I said,
yesterday, I thought maybe this was, it seemed like it might
happen. Mike. I are you surprised that it happened
here. No, I'm not. I'm
surprised it took this long, okay.
And it makes me see, here's where the Browns and everybody
else needs to watch and understand what's going on
here.
Tony Busby, right? Realizes the benefit
in
waiting
and waiting. You don't have to do everything all at once. You
don't have to sue the Texans out of the gate. He has from
an Evidence standpoint
collected. I assume he believes sufficient proof that makes his
claims against the Texans even stronger, but
It's a different vibe.
If the Texans get joined
to the lawsuits before DeShaun Watson is traded,
then after he's traded
and
it just adds to this sense that it's an avalanche. It's out of
control right now. The court of public opinion is teetering on
the brink of a conclusive verdict of guilty, DeShaun
Watson and all this is happening while the league is
trying to figure out what to do.
But every day it's something else
and it It doesn't surprise me. It happened. It does surprise
me. It took this long and now it changes the Dynamics if, and
when the Texans are added to this, when they're added to
this as a defendant because now the league is kind of pulled
into
this mess. So there's actual skin in the game for the NFL,
for all of these other personal conduct policy issues that
the league is dealt with. There hasn't been a component where
someone is trying to raid the coffers of an NFL franchise.
Now, on top of
everything else that the show Watson has brought to the NFL
by way of
Action
and bad press. Now. This whole thing
is causing a real Financial liability
for one of its teams.
I mean,
what do you think? Like, what is he going to say? Or what's
he going to claim here from the the Texans as far as making
them defendants that they just had knowledge of a of this
stuff that Watson was doing this. That's basically what
he's going to lump them in here with with Watson
that they were part of a cover-up or
turn. Turned a blind eye to it. What exactly, you think?
They're he's trying to say here, that they knew or should
have known. What DeShaun Watson was doing. They knew or
certainly should have known. There. It is. Five lines up
from the bottom of the statement from
Tony Busby yesterday. They knew or they should have known. We
talked about that yesterday, right? As it related to
the comment that was made on social media, the threat from
the woman who ended up being the 23rd. Plaintiff to DeShaun
Watson. I will expose you. You
with text messages and cash app, receipts.
He talked to, the director of security about it.
The director of security responded by giving him
a nondisclosure agreement to use at these massages instead of
telling him. Stop what you're doing.
If you need a massage, you've got
facilities here or without asking any questions to Shawn.
Why are you getting massages from these women when we've got
a world-class training staff here,
or I can set you up with one.
One person, right? That we can trust that we know is, okay.
That's right. It isn't going to create an issue. I don't know,
maybe a man, right? You're not going to get into these issues,
if it's a male, massage therapist,
and and that didn't happen. And here's a hit and I don't want
to get too nerdy about the legal aspect of it.
The biggest defense for the Texans will be the threshold,
defense will be.
We don't have a duty of care. We don't have a duty. There's
nothing. We're supposed to, we didn't do anything. These are
his actions. If he's engaging in criminal misconduct. We're
not responsible for his criminal misconduct
and and see if I hadn't thought of it that way,
but it really sets the stage to have another party at the table
that is throwing stones at the Sean Watson
because the best argument for the
Very well. Maybe
we are not responsible for his criminal misconduct
and the argument from Busby will be
you knew enough to acquire a duty of care to these
individuals to protect them from a predator. You knew
enough that you should have asked the questions to
ascertain whether or not this man potentially is a sexual
predator
who was utilizing hotel room you provided NDA. You gave to him
to facilitate his effort to commit. These crimes
that will be the argument by Busby. But the argument by
the Texans actually makes it worse for Watson because the Texans
have every reason to say we're not responsible
for his crimes.
I did that's you're right. I didn't think about that aspect
of it. Yeah. So the Texans, what you're saying? They could
end up piling on here for watching a little bit, making
things
harder for them.
It just, I don't know. Mike. What is this? You think day 12
13 in a row
of just one Haymaker after another from Busby and that
side just crushing Watson and the court of a public opinion
that to me is again, it's just like
mix, stop the bleeding and the Watson corner right now.
It just It's worse every single day. It really does. And
you know, I think you're right with the paid leave or
whatever. I think the pressure is on the NFL here that they're
going to have to make a pretty
pretty big decision here pretty soon. They're going to have to
one thing that Busby is doing.
Regardless of whether you agree with his tactics,
he is following legitimate news coverage
of the event with a strategic
move, on the chessboard
the HBO Real Sports story.
Sixteen days ago,
they follow that up the following Tuesday. The first
business day after Memorial Day weekend with lawsuit. Number
23,
the
New York Times story comes out on Tuesday. The next day. Tony
Busby says,
after the time story gets into the Texans
role in all of this.
That's when Busby says
I'm suing the Texans, see it's a different vibe. If it's Busby
out of the blue saying, hey, I'm going to sue the Texans but
the New York Times. Story gives credibility to the idea that
Texas may have some responsibilities.
So he doesn't look like an ambulance Chaser
when he chases the New York Times story
with his intention to sue the Texan. There's a
there's a genius
to this and that's what Rusty Heart was dealing with.
What do you do? You do you think the Texans like,
you know, just from your legal
expertise and volleying things like this. I mean, do you think
there's you know some burden on the Texans here to know that or
do that? I mean Again, it's like
I want to say a little bit like the defend players. They're
always held to you can't do conduct detrimental to
the shield and things like that, right? Okay. Well,
you know, I mean, you could in some ways go. Hey team. If you
know, some guys are being bad and doing all that. You're not
doing things that are helping the shield here
and that so that there's part of me that just, you know,
wonders about that aspect a little bit. I guess
the truth is, I don't know enough about the specifics of
the legal. System in Texas to know whether and to what extent
these cases. Well to use a technical term from My Cousin,
Vinny hold water,
but I do know this,
that
when the director of security for the Houston Texans catches
wind of some potential issue with DeShaun Watson and
massages and I could destroy you. If I want to I can expose
you. If I want to
the answer to that
should not be give the guy a nondisclosure agreement that he
can take to these massages to get them to sign it. So he keep
Her mouth shut. The goal should be
to get DeShaun Watson to avoid to do the kinds of things that
people wouldn't keep their mouth shut about. That's what
should have happened. So morally,
not legally, but it kind of covers. Both the move should
have been
to have a heart-to-heart with DeShaun Watson and get him to
stop doing things that would lead to these kinds of threats
being made. So they got a problem and they can blame it
on their director of security
because I think that's the person who handled this
the wrong way.